Jungle World, Berlin: "The Reding-brothers changed the
authentic touch of their movie into something strangely unauthentic:A
highly stylized piece of art, an extraordinary movie about youth, this
film is an event. Oi!WARNING is one of the most intensive and surprising
movies of our time.The cast is outstanding."

Neueste Nachrichten Potsdam: "The film does not show THE
punk or THE skin, but the individual behind the label. Oi!WARNING brings
together very differnt roups of german society: The cinema-expert, who
can admire the excellent cinematography of Axel Henschel ( nominated
for the German Cinematography Award for Oi!WARNING ) and the young ones
from the backstreets, who feel understood by this movie."

REVIEWS

Los Angeles Times: "visceral and commanding"

Freitag, Berlin: "Since Tom Tykwers (director of "Run
Lola run") "Tödliche Maria" there was no first-feature,
which was as visual, as delicate constructed, as believeable, as powerful
directed, as Oi!WARNING."

Schweriner Express, Schwerin: "After the credits one has
to breathe deeply, the brain works like mad."

Stuttgarter Zeitung, Stuttgart: "Not many german films
are able to tell a story as powerful and at the same time as detailed
as Oi!WARNING."

Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung: "Expressionistic black
and white photography. Showing a game of fire: aggression and regression,
excesses in sex and violence."

Der Tagesspiegel, Berlin: "A breathtaking black and white
feature about the german skinhead scene. It has the strenght to show
the archaic skinhead-rituals before only criticising them."

Ruhrnachrichten, Dortmund: "A movie abaout youth, skinheds,
punks, about group-pressure and voilence. A kind of Trainspotting in
blanck and whit."

Marabo-Magazin, Bochum: "Catchy pictures, true acting."

EDP-Fim, Cologne: "This movie is voilend in the best sense
of the word: Powerful images, fast timing, believeable characters and
intense soundtracking. A movie that grabs the audience"

Just expelled from school, Janosch trashes his mother's book- filled
house and sets out on his scooter to find his older pal, Koma, who has
moved to the town of Dortmund.

Tall, muscular, and violent, Koma works at a menial job in a beer-bottling
factory by day. By night he is a star of the skinhead scene: kick-boxer,
singer, all-round beer drinker, and street brawler. And after a night
of carousing and fighting, he returns to his well-ordered apartment
and Sandra, a pretty, pregnant, peroxide blond.

Janosch moves in with Koma, and as he tries to fit in with his new
family, comes to shave his head, starts drinking and brawling with the
skins, acquires a girlfriend, and loses his virginity. But soon there
is trouble in paradise. The punks confront the skins, and Koma's secret
hideout in the woods is destroyed. And when Janosch goes to get a tattoo
from Zottel, a gentle, longhaired, fire-eating hippie, emotional forces
are set in motion which lead to the shocking climax.

Shot in superbly artistic black-and-white photography, Oi!WARNING combines
action, image, and a perfect ear for dialogue in a powerful study of
skinhead subculture, male tribal violence, and the instability of the
male character as it matures from adolescent to adult: sexual tension,
possible excursions into homoeroticism, need for acceptance, and drive
for a distinctive identity. Also remarkable is the insightful contrast
the film draws between male and female desires.

Oi! WARNING is a stunning feature-film debut for its young codirectors,
Dominik and Benjamin Reding.